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11 Legendary Literary Hoaxes

an incomplete and idiosyncratic list of literary hoaxes—some great, some simply deceitful, all fascinating. the-poems-of-ossian. Fragments ...

Literary forgery - Wikipedia

Literary forgery (also known as literary mystification, literary fraud or literary hoax) is writing, such as a manuscript or a literary work,

Literary Hoaxes and the Ethics of Authorship | The New Yorker

A long-standing protocol of book appreciation to consider things like the gender, sexuality, ethnicity, personal vices, personal virtues (if any), and prior ...

Top 10 literary hoaxes | Books | The Guardian

Top 10 literary hoaxes · 10. Laura Albert – Sarah (1999) · 9. Stewart Home – Confusion Incorporated (1999) · 8. Binjamin Wilkomirski – Fragments ...

Some of Our Favorite Literary Hoaxes - The New York Times

In honor of April Fools' Day, we've collected some of the best book frauds from the last 100 years.

Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - Famous Literary Hoaxes ...

Collecting Rare Books and First Editions - Famous Literary Hoaxes (Part One) · By Joachim Koch · A Forgery of Epic Proportions · Bogus Manuscript at the British ...

8 of the Most Infamous Literary Hoaxes - Book Riot

Literary hoaxes and frauds are shocking, tragic, and enraging, and the ones on this list were done for racist, greedy, and elitist reasons.

Writers, Hoaxes, and the Psychology of Fraud - LiteratureLust.com

Why do authors commit literary hoaxes? · to draw attention to their fraudulent skills · to create financial gain through deceit · to target ...

The Most Successful Literary Hoaxes in History - Barnes & Noble

A truly worthy hoax can be appreciated for its genius once enough time has passed. Here are eight literary hoaxes that were so successful, you simply have to ...

Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

Easily the most underappreciated genre in history, the literary hoax is overdue for reappraisal and entirely deserving of critical attention.

Literary Hoaxes: when fun turns into irritation. - Shaharee Vyaas

It's an art who lies in the hope of revealing some truths. So what sets the literary hoax separate from the rest of fiction? The oldest hoaxes ...

Christopher L. Miller's 'Impostors' asks readers: What's in a byline?

Miller researched more than a dozen French and American “intercultural literary hoaxes.” A literary hoax, he explains, is when a writer, with ...

3 Literary Hoaxes That Resulted in Real Books

3 Literary Hoaxes That Resulted in Real Books · Naked Came the Stranger · The Man Who Cried I Am · I, Libertine. By Theodore Sturgeon.

When Creativity Isn't Appreciated: Literary Hoaxes

When Creativity Isn't Appreciated: Literary Hoaxes · Forbidden Love · Ern Malley · The Diary of Jack the Ripper · The Hitler Diaries · JT Leroy

Impostors: Literary Hoaxes and Cultural Authenticity, Miller

This book looks at authors who posed as people they were not, in order to claim a different ethnic, class, or other identity. These writers were, in other words ...

History's Most Famous Literary Hoaxes

Thirty years after the Hitler Diaries were exposed as a fraud, here's a look back at some of history's other famous fictions.

Category:Literary hoaxes - Wikipedia

Category:Literary hoaxes ... This category is located at Category:Literary forgeries. Note: This category should be empty. See the instructions for more ...

What makes a good literary hoax? A political point, for starters

A true hoax provokes. It questions cultural biases, shattering conventions. But the curious case of the three men writing as a female author ...

Online Literary Hoaxes: a warning for the publishing industry

Dr LJ Maher speaks to the different types of literary hoaxes before balancing the legal and ethical implications of propagating a literary hoax ...

Literary Hoaxes - An Eye Opening History of Famous Frauds | eBay

When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400 BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic “Heraclides is ignorant of letters”) to humiliate an academic ...